Radio Free Afghanistan
A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice in Kabul
- Format: Innbundet
- Antall sider: 272
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9780008653910
- Utgivelsesår: 2024
- Bidragsyter: Mohseni, Saad; Krajeski, Jenna
349,-
The deeply moving and surprising story of the attempt to build a truly independent media company in contemporary Afghanistan.Saad Mohseni, chairman and CEO of Moby Group, Afghanistan¿s largest media company, charts a twenty-year effort to bring a free press to his country after years of Taliban rule, and how that effort persists even after the Taliban¿s return to power in 2021.In the heady days early days of the American, Mohseni returns to Kabul which he had last seen as a child before the Soviet inasion. Casting about for ways to be involved in the dawn of a new Afghanistan, Mohseni makes what seems like a quixotic decision to leave the comfort of a career in international banking to start a Kabul radio station with his three siblings. This unlikely venture quickly blossoms into a burgeoning television empire, bringing Mohseni and his family and employees into sometimes uncomfortable contact with everyone who has a stake in the country¿from the government of Hamid Karzai to White Hou